Roseanne Revival's First Trailer Is Finally Here

With the return of the legendary sitcom Roseanne just a few weeks away, ABC has finally revealed the first footage from the show's highly-anticipated return. Airing during the network's broadcast of the 90th Academy Awards, the trailer offers us our first look at what Roseanne, Dan and the rest of the Connor clan are up to in 2018. And as expected, not much has changed. There's still that same sarcastic back-and-forth, the same working-class look and feel, and the same iconic laugh.

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The first order of business when the show returns will be explaining exactly how John Goodman's Dan is alive, considering the show's original series finale revealed that he'd died of a heart attack at the end of season eight and much of season nine had been a work of fiction created by Roseanne Barr's title character.

"I didn't really care," Goodman told reporters about the character's resurrection at the 2018 Winter TCA Press Tour. "I thought it was a clever way to do it, handle it and get it out of the way."

The revival will also play with politics (Barr has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump's presidency and her character will be too), but it won't be as overtly political as one might think. "People think this show is more political than it is," Sara Gilbertsaid in a recent roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter. "It's more about how a family deals with a disagreement like that."

"I wanted to do it this way. It's the conversation everybody is having," Barr added. "Families are not speaking to each other. People are still shocked and upset about it. It's the state of our country."